On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:50:55PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > >> Is there any reasons to prefer Apple's Bonjour over Howl? The license > >> problems are the same in both implementations, and we can at least have > >> some influence on Howl. See how well Apple works with the KDE community. > >> Not really encouraging. > > > > I thought the plan was to use Avahi.
Avahi is going to end up much better for us. It integrates with our main loop; talks via D-BUS; has bindings in C# and Python (and probably other stuff); is LGPL (all of it); and all in all looks superior to any existing technology we are using (have a look at the existing DNS-SD code in GNOME-VFS). > > It would be very nice to use the same implementation as KDE, otherwise > > you end up with two implementation of Zeroconf on your system :( > > So, it seems some people want to use howl, some prefer bonjour and > some other ones want avahi. Sounds like we'll need an abstraction > to make everyone happy... GServiceBrowser: http://www.livejournal.com/users/davyd/152749.html --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
